Jesse Lee Kercheval is the author of 13 books of poetry, fiction, and memoir in including Cinema Muto, winner of the Crab Orchard Open Selection Award and The Alice Stories, winner of the Prairie Schooner Fiction Book Prize, as well as a translator specializing in Uruguayan poetry. She is the editor of América invertida: an anthology of younger Uruguayan poets which is forthcoming from the University of New Mexico Press.